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Hawksbill | Breeding and Nesting | |||
| The Hawksbill is the only sea turtle that successfully nest outside of the tropics. It's just important that the water temperature is over 20 degrees Celsius. As with the other species of sea turtles, the females return to the same beach as they were hatched to lay their eggs. During a breeding season a female Hawksbill sea turtle may nest several times. |  | ||
| When the female turtle leaves the sea she drags herself up the beach until she finds a suited place for a nest. | |||
 | With her back flippers she makes a hole where she deposits between 50 and 150 eggs. The eggs have the size of golf balls. When the last egg is laid, the turtle uses the flippers to cover the eggs with sand and with her plastron she tramps down the sand. Nesting can take between one and three hours. About 2 months later the eggs hatch. The actual length of incubations depends on the weather. | ||
| If its cooler it takes longer to hatch the eggs. Actually the cooler weather will also produce more male hatchlings. | 1 2 | ||
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